Scott County Deputy CIO Perry Mulcrone goes to Lucky Linda’s Body Art to have his arm decorated in Google’s St. Patrick’s Day logo. He pledges to get a real Google tattoo if the Internet giant picks Scott County as a test site for its high-speed fiber project. Found at YouTube from ShakopeeValleyNews.

Image details: Sink in an art class served by picapp.com

I had grand plans to redesign the Twin Cities, Minnesota Blog and then seamlessly, in the wee hours of the night, flip the domain switch so that, presto!, you, dear read, would be spared the experience you are currently…experiencing.

So much for grand plans.

Had I stuck to them, this blog would still be languishing in its previous design and would not enjoy the future benefits of the flexibility that WordPress provides.

This experience has taught me how much of a pain in the ass transferring a blog from TypePad to WordPress really is.

And not’s not comforting at all to me because I’ve got two more blogs worth of pain to endure.

Anyway, please bear with me as I configure this thing. You’re going to encounter some broken links as you explore. If you find any, please email me the URL so I can fix it: deerickson at gmail dot com.

Thanks.

The newly redesigned NFL.com has a lot of great features and content but one major problem with it is that they changed the URL addresses for the individual player profiles and as a result, all the links I’ve made to them over the years in my pro football posts are now broken.

Here’s an example: The old link to Darren Sharper’s profile. The new link to Darren Sharper’s profile. If you look closely, you’ll see the URLs are different for both profiles but the old profile is not redirected to the new one.

It is something that can be fixed retroactively, so hopefully, they fix it.

I’m sorta thinking of linking to player profiles on Wikipedia from now on because they are less likely to change addresses.

If the details of NFL.com’s broken links interest you, I’ve written about it at my Internet Marketing Blog:  NFL.com Redesign & Search Engine Marketing Blunder.

So, if you’re running into broken links to football players, that’s why.

Here’s a roundup of this week’s posts at my Internet marketing blog:

• What Is Spam? According to surveys, it is what the recipient thinks it is.
• 70% Of Email Considered Spam – And, clearly, recipients think most of their email is spam.
• Email Marketing – Some interesting email usage statistics.
• Grand Theft Scwab? Is the staid brokerage firm intentionally targeting Grand Theft Auto gamers with their latest television spots?

These are my links for today, January 26, 2006:

• Tom Waits – Official site.
• Tom Waits – Record label page.
• Tom Waits – Internet Movie Database page.
• Tom Waits – Google music page.
• Tom Waits – Fan site.
• Tom Waits – Fan site.
• Tom Waits – Wikipedia page.
• 
  Small Change – Buy one of my favorite Tom Waits albums. Includes such classics as "The Piano Has Been Drinking" and "Step Right Up". Every song is great.
• Tom Waits – Biography, discography, reviews, links.
• ANTI-records – Independent music label featuring Tom Waits and Daniel Lanois.
• Apogee Gifts – Corporate business gifts.
• Minnesota Legislature – RSS Feeds.
• Minnesota House of Representatives – RSS Feeds.
• Minnesota Legislative Reference Library – RSS Feeds.

These are my links for today, January 24, 2006:

• CannibalTheMusical.Net – Trey Parker’s (of South Park fame) play
• Grand Theft Schwab? – Comparison between Charles Schwab TV commercials and Grand Theft Auto
• Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories – News & Information
• GTA3.COM
• GTA Vice City – Welcome to the 80s
• GTAForums.com
• GTA San Andreas : Latest News
• Grand Theft Auto Portal
• Liberty City Stories : Latest News

Here’s a roundup of this week’s posts at my Internet marketing blog:

• Micro Marketing On The Tiny Screen – Video on iPods and PSPs
• Speedcasting – Podcasts on steroids
• Political Blogging – Stats and demographics, originally written for Politics in Minnesota: The Weekly Report

I love the Internet(s) so much. How much? This much:

One of the best things about the Internet is how pheonomenally easy it has made it to find new music. Then along come’s Fastboot’s music search engine to make it easy to not only find your favorite musicians/bands music online, but to play it right there on the search engine, as well.

SSSSSSSSTTTTTTTOP!

My next, and last, sentence of this post was going to be: "Very cool; try it out."

But then I went back to the site and found that the website from which the Fastboot music search application was pulling music, Radioblogclub, had disabled the search engine.

Very, very sad.

I love the Internet(s) so much. How much? This much:

Mistakes can be hilarious, as Harry Shearer demonstrates to great effect each week. Shearer devotes a segement of his radio show, Le Show, to detailng the apologies of the week with The Beatles‘ Uncle Albert playing in the background: We’re so sorry…

Likewise, Craig Silverman‘s Regret The Error blog does a superb job of chronicling the mistakes of the news media. His December 13 post details 2005′s best errors and corrections,

The Correction of the Year goes to the Denver Daily News who ran a story that referred to New Jersey as "Jew Jersey." Oops.

Look what I found in my website statistics! Someone translated me into, I believe, Japanese, at Google: